Dreaming While Awake experience with Bonnie Buckner

Bonnie Buckner will be guiding a dream workshop. She will guide through an experience of how to look inside our body to connect with our spontaneous imagination (dreaming while awake), among others, all of which bring us back to our body, literally, and to move from this place of embodiment and imagination. This work of reconnecting leads to not only stimulating creativity, surmounting blocks, manifesting projects, and finding creative solutions to social and global challenges, but also appreciating and loving our miraculous bodies.

ABOUT BONNIE BUCKNER

Bonnie Buckner holds a PhD in psychology, with an emphasis in media, from Fielding Graduate University, and a PCC level coaching certificate from ICF. She is adjunct faculty for the GWU CEPL e-CO Leadership Coaching Certification program.  Author of Dream Your Self into Being, her academic and professional work since 2008 has centered on the study and use of images, dreaming, and the spontaneous imagination as cognitive tools for behavioral and communal change.  Her private consulting practice teaches these tools to individuals, organizations, and performing arts foundations/individuals to stimulate creativity and to find creative solutions to social and global challenges.

ABOUT BODYHUES

BODYHUES is a new program, developed by Gibney Company Artistic Associate Jie-Hung Connie Shiau, that challenges harmful body stereotypes in dance. Join us for the Virtual Pilot Program to get a taste of why and how BODYHUES aims to cultivate a culture of celebrating and loving one’s body and dismantle the toxic body-shaming culture that oppresses and limits us all.

Self-love and self-care look different for everyone. Each Saturday in August, four different Guest Facilitators will guide participants through a FREE workshop offering their unique perspective on nurturing self-love, self-care, self-confidence, and creativity. Guest Facilitators include: Darling Shear, Janet Lo, Jennifer Sun, and Bonnie Buckner.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

To offer a cohesive experience, participants must register for the full series of five workshops. Date, time, and registration information is below.

August 14, 12-2:30pm EDT:
Dance From The Heart workshop with Janet Lo

August 21, 12-3pm EDT:
TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) fundamental and TCM cooking class with Jennifer Sun

August 21, 3:15-4:15pm EDT:
Post-workshop debrief with Dr. Catherine Drury and Jie-Hung Connie Shiau

August 28, 12-2pm EDT:
Dreaming While Awake experience with Bonnie Buckner

September 4, 12-3pm EDT:
Healing movement workshop and Artist Chat with Darling Shear

Deadline for the registration: August 7, 2021
Max number of participants: 20

Bodyhues was created in part through Gibney Company’s Moving Toward Justice Fellowship program with support by the Bay and Paul Foundations, with additional support from Andrew A. Davis, a Trustee of the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund.

Photo (left to right, top to bottom) of Jie-Hung Connie Shiau, Darling Shear, Janet Lo, Jennifer Sun, Bonnie Buckner, Dr. Catherine Drury, courtesy of artists.